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Sunday, June 13, 2010

just finished reading

The Elvenbane, by Andre Norton and Mercedes Lackey. This is the one I promised you I'd review a couple days ago--the reread of my childhood magician's book. My review here. I know at least a couple of you have also read it--I hope you'll come out of your lairs and comment. (Dragon joke.)

8 comments:

For some reason I stopped reading a lot of Andre Norton when she started writing with others. I loved her early work and consider her an influence on my writing. I've read none of her collaborations. I have met Mercedes Lackey though and she seems a nice person.

I, too, read and loved this as a kid, mostly because I was immersed in a used-books love affair with Mercedes Lackey. Once I finished all of her solo works, I moved on to her collaborations (a motley lot, for the most part). Elvenbane stood head and shoulders above the others, and a fair way beyond many of her solitary efforts.

Indeed, as I outgrew her writing entirely, and began to purge my collection, Elvenbane consistently remained behind. You know it's a good book when it can withstand the Purging of the Bookshelves.